Training Courses
Training courses help practitioners meet their licensing requirements for continuing professional development. They are also an essential way for organizations to build and maintain a skilled workforce in an ever-changing world.
TAC’s training courses are primarily online and are either live (instructor-led) or on-demand (self-directed). Once a course is purchased and paid for, learners can connect to the Online Training Centre with a single click from their TAC account.
Online Training
Data Governance for Performance-Based Decision Making
Live, instructor-led, online training
This training course will provide transportation engineering managers with fundamental knowledge about data governance and management to support transportation service delivery, and is based on TAC’s Performance-Based Decision Making for Asset Management: Lessons Learned and Practitioner Toolkit.
Understanding Goods Movement in Canada: Trends and Best Practices
On-demand, self-directed, online training
This two-hour 15 minute course is based on TAC’s Understanding Goods Movement in Canada: Trends and Best Practices. Participants will improve their understanding of multimodal goods movement in urban, rural and intercity contexts. The course includes Canadian and international case studies addressing issues related to supply chains, urbanization, land use planning, and policy.
Roundabout Planning and Design
Live, instructor-led, online training
This two-day course for transportation practitioners and managers is based on TAC’s Canadian Roundabout Design Guide. Participants will improve their understanding of using the Guide, roundabout capacity analysis and safety performance, and roundabout geometric and detailed design.
Road Safety for Canadian Practitioners
On-demand, self-directed, online training
These five courses are offered by TAC in partnership with ITE Canada and were developed by a team of Canadian experts led by CIMA+. They include introductory material for less-experienced practitioners and more complex topics for practitioners with intermediate to advanced experience. As a group, they exceed the material covered by the Road Safety Professional, Level 1 certification exam administered by the Transportation Professional Certification Board.
Features
- Each module is divided into submodules that include a recorded lecture, reading list, and examples or case studies.
- Each module includes a handout with additional voluntary exercises.
- Modules range from three to six hours long; all five modules comprise 24 hours of learning.
- Learners’ progress is tracked automatically, allowing them to pause and return later.
- Learners can download an electronic certificate of completion.
- At the end of each submodule, learners complete a multiple-choice quiz; for each incorrect answer, they are referred to the slide with the correct answer.
- Courses are accessible for 12 months after payment. Extended access requires re-purchase.
- Courses are browser-based and run on personal computers (Windows 7 or later, Mac OS X 10.9 or later) or mobile devices (Android OS 5 or later, iOS 11 or later).
In-Person Training
In-person training is available on selected topics. These classroom-style courses are usually one-to-two days long and offered in locations across Canada.
Previously delivered in-person training courses include:
- Beyond the Guide: An Advanced Seminar in the Geometric Design of Roads
- Geometric Design for Canadian Roads: Foundation Level Seminar
- Geometric Design Guide for Canadian Roads 2017 Edition – What’s New?
- Complete Streets Design: Creating Multimodal Streets in Retrofit Corridors
